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Here is a book that makes sense of the L.A. riots, homelessness,
tax giveaways, and the other big urban issues that are back in the
national spotlight. In this streamlined and updated new edition of
his classic book, The Dependent City, Paul Kantor now focuses on
economic development and social welfare policies to reveal the key
dilemmas of American urban politics. Returning to a political
economy theme, Kantor explores how city governments have struggled
to escape and accommodate the reality of their economic dependency
in the policies that they've pursued. Revisiting cities across the
nation, Kantor finds not only that they have become more dependent
but also that the character of this dependency has changed and
deepened. Exploring local regimes in the Frostbelt and Sunbelt and
in suburbia, he finds that they frequently act more like captives
of big business rather than as representatives of citizens. Local
attempts to promote social justice increasingly run up against a
wall of economic dependency created by federal policies and
business power. This book signals how American cities can find ways
of overcoming this dependency by working together with states and
the federal government to promote healthy, democratic urban
politics. The Dependent City Revisited is an accessible,
provocative supplement for a wide variety of courses in urban
studies and political economy as well as stimulating reading for
anyone who is interested in understanding America's urban mosaic.
Here is a book that makes sense of the L.A. riots, homelessness,
tax giveaways, and the other big urban issues that are back in the
national spotlight. In this streamlined and updated new edition of
his classic book, The Dependent City, Paul Kantor now focuses on
economic development and social welfare policies to reveal the key
dilemmas of American urban politics. Returning to a political
economy theme, Kantor explores how city governments have struggled
to escape and accommodate the reality of their economic dependency
in the policies that they've pursued. Revisiting cities across the
nation, Kantor finds not only that they have become more dependent
but also that the character of this dependency has changed and
deepened. Exploring local regimes in the Frostbelt and Sunbelt and
in suburbia, he finds that they frequently act more like captives
of big business rather than as representatives of citizens. Local
attempts to promote social justice increasingly run up against a
wall of economic dependency created by federal policies and
business power. This book signals how American cities can find ways
of overcoming this dependency by working together with states and
the federal government to promote healthy, democratic urban
politics. The Dependent City Revisited is an accessible,
provocative supplement for a wide variety of courses in urban
studies and political economy as well as stimulating reading for
anyone who is interested in understanding America's urban mosaic.
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Intelligence and Security Informatics - IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2005, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 19-20, 2005, Proceedings (Paperback, 2005 ed.)
Paul Kantor, Gheorghe Muresan, Fred Roberts, Daniel Zeng, Frei-Yue Wang, …
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Intelligence and security informatics (ISI) can be broadly defined
as the study of the development and use of advanced information
technologies and systems for national and international
security-related applications, through an integrated technological,
organizational, and policy-based approach. In the past few years,
ISI research has experienced tremendous growth and attracted
substantial interest from academic researchers in related fields as
well as practitioners from both government agencies and industry.
The first two meetings (ISI 2003 and ISI 2004) in the ISI symposium
and conference series were held in Tucson, Arizona, in 2003 and
2004, respectively. They provided a stimulating intellectual forum
for discussion among previously disparate communities: academic
researchers in information technologies, computer science, public
policy, and social studies; local, state, and federal law
enforcement and intelligence experts; and information technology
industry consultants and practitioners. Building on the momentum of
these ISI meetings and with sponsorship by the IEEE, we held the
IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security
Informatics (ISI 2005) in May 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition
to the established and emerging ISI research topics covered at past
ISI meetings, ISI 2005 included a new track on Terrorism
Informatics, which is a new stream of terrorism research leveraging
the latest advances in social science methodologies, and
information technologies and tools. ISI 2005 was jointly hosted by
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; the University of
Arizona (UA); and the Georgia Institute of Technology (GATECH).
Does globalization menace our cities? Are cities able to
exercise democratic rule and strategic choice when international
competition increasingly limits the importance of place? "Cities in
the International Marketplace" looks at the political responses of
ten cities in North America and Western Europe as they grappled
with the forces of global restructuring during the past thirty
years. H. V. Savitch and Paul Kantor conclude that cities do have
choices in city building and that they behave strategically in the
international marketplace.
Rather than treating cities through case studies, this book
undertakes rigorous systematic comparison. In doing so it provides
an innovative theory that explains how city governments bargain in
the capital investment process to assert their influence. The
authors examine the role of economic conditions and
intergovernmental politics as well as local democratic institutions
and cultural values. They also show why cities vary in their
approaches to urban development. They portray how cities are
constrained by the dynamics of the global economy but are not its
prisoners. Further, they explain why some urban communities have
more maneuverability than do others in the economic development
game. Local governance, culture, and planning can combine with
economic fortune and national urban policies to provide resources
that expand or contract the scope for choice. This clearly written
book analyzes the political economy of development in Detroit,
Houston, and New York in the United States; Toronto in Canada;
Paris and Marseilles in France; Milan and Naples in Italy; and
Glasgow and Liverpool in Great Britain.
Throughout the past thirty years a small number of city-regions
have achieved unprecedented global status in the world economy
while undergoing radical changes. Struggling Giants examines the
transformation of four of the most significant metropolises:
London, New York, Paris, and Tokyo. This volume analyzes the
thorniest issues these sprawling city-regions have faced, including
ameliorating social problems through public policies, the effect of
globalization on local governance, and the relationships between
local, regional, and national institutions. Three critical themes
frame Struggling Giants . The first is the continuing struggle for
governability in the midst of regional governmental fragmentation.
The second theme is how the city-regions fight to manage powerful
political biases. Policy-making is often selective, the authors
find, and governments are more responsive to economic exigencies
than to social or environmental needs. Finally, these city-regions
are shown to be strong economic leaders in part because they are
able to changeOCoalthough the authors reveal that pragmatism and
piecemeal policy solutions can still prevail.
Powerful cross-currents of both decline and resurgence have been
affecting American political parties over the past several decades.
Is the era of decline that began in the late 1960s over and are the
parties in a new era of rebuilding? In what direction are the
parties headed and what does it mean for a healthy and
well-functioning democracy? American Political Parties brings
together a distinguished team of contributors to explore these
questions. Students are exposed to original, "state-of-the-art"
research on the parties that is written to be accessible and
engaging. Presenting both historical and contemporary material on
the changing U.S. parties, the book offers a balanced portrait and
a wide variety of views concerning the continuing weaknesses of the
parties and their concurrent signs of revitalization. Essays
examine three important elements of parties-the parties in the mass
public, the parties as electoral and political organizations, and
the parties as governing groups. Two themes recur throughout-the
first deals with party change (specifically realignment and
dealignment) and the second with party responsibility in a
democratic government. The concluding chapter places the
contibutors' various findings and viewpoints in perspective. It
offers several theories to help explain why the parties seem to be
following their dual paths of development and considers the
implications of this state of affairs for the future of American
democracy.
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